Media Players for windows (mostly MP3)

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:36 am

I've been Using Windows media player 9 and now 10 since winamp 3.0 came out I didn't like how sluggish Winam 3 was so I went back to M$

It's hanging for about 5 - 10 seconds on all my PCs when I start playing an MP3 which is annoying because I can't adjust the volume, or shrink it down. I killed all the visualizations, but it still hangs.

Any suggestions for a good media player that will shrink down to the taskbar or have a really sleek player that can fit in the windows title bar so it can be always on top of all the windows?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:16 am

so..you're saying you've tried Winamp 5.xx? that thing's hardly sluggish for me.

Post by **shiznit** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:21 am

Winamp 5 is like winamp2 now but much better, or try that other one. Damn wtf is the name, oh yeah foobar.

Post by **duffman91** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:22 am

Foobar is the only mp3 player I can stand to use. It is small and compact, it also has great plugin support.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:53 am

duffman91 wrote:Foobar is the only mp3 player I can stand to use. It is small and compact, it also has great plugin support.

i use this also, but haven't found an "alarm clock" plugin for it yet, or i'd use it exclusively.

Post by **Transient** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:55 am

Foobar or Winamp 2.81

Post by **Denz** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:10 am

Winamp 5

and if it's sluggish perhaps you should get a real computer.

Post by **Deathshroud** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:16 am

I just downloaded that Foobar to check it out, and that thing is stripped down real nice. None of that flashy shit going on. Anyone know if there is a MAD input plug in for this?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:50 am

Denz wrote:Winamp 5

and if it's sluggish perhaps you should get a real computer.

that's quite the

statement.

i have a 900mhz PC with 512mb of ram with Winamp 5 and it runs great. i'm sure it's probably the slowest one here.

Post by **mjrpes** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:32 am

duffman91 wrote:Foobar is the only mp3 player I can stand to use. It is small and compact, it also has great plugin support.

You should be happy to know that because of some post you made 2 years ago I discovered the wonders that are fb2k. Thank you good sir as fb2k has treated be very kindly up to this day.

Post by **rep** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:15 am

BeoPlayer is how I roll.

http://www.bang-olufsen.com/web2/system ... prodid=222

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:12 pm

Denz wrote:Winamp 5

and if it's sluggish perhaps you should get a real computer.

:icon19:

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:so..you're saying you've tried Winamp 5.xx? that thing's hardly sluggish for me.

No After that piece of poopie Winamp 3 AFAIK I don't think I ever went back.

I forgot about XMPayer, it's an application I use on my USB Drive, allong with portable Firefox. It allows me to play m MP3 files from any computer without having to install a player. I plug in the drive and just run the EXE. It's got a ton of features I'll prolly not be using but it's does exactly what I want. It's slim and only uses 2,632 K of resources. :icon14: It's got great audio reproduction I think I'll stick with this...

[lvlshot]http://pages.prodigy.net/dpfalandys/llama/screenshot/DTxmplayer.jpg[/lvlshot]

Post by **Giraffe }{unter** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:13 pm

rep wrote:BeoPlayer is how I roll.

http://www.bang-olufsen.com/web2/system ... prodid=222

That's great if that's all you can afford :icon14:

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:02 pm

Giraffe }{unter wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:so..you're saying you've tried Winamp 5.xx? that thing's hardly sluggish for me.
No After that piece of poopie Winamp 3 AFAIK I don't think I ever went back.

yeah, 3 was so bad, that it bordered on ridiculous. 5 has the skinability of 3, with the stability of 2xx

Post by **plained** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:07 pm

quicktime pro man yea

Post by **dzjepp** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:10 pm

Media Player Classic/Zoom Player Pro (shareware)/VLC (VideoLAN Client)/BSplayer Pro (shareware)

Not in any particular order, but from using these I've found them to perform quite nicely. Also, they are usually rated quite high on software download sites (like betanews.com).